Dr Doron Hickey is an ophthalmology registrar at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and a Visiting Researcher at CERA, where he is a co-investigator on a research project developing novel therapies for retinal diseases.

Following an Honours degree on retinal development from the Australian National University, Dr Hickey was awarded a Woolf Fisher scholarship to complete his DPhil at the University of Oxford. Under the supervision of Professors Robert MacLaren and Mark Hankins, he investigated how vision could be restored to the blind retina using the technique of optogenetics.

At the completion of his DPhil, Dr Hickey worked as a Clinical Research Fellow in Vitreoretinal Surgery and Medical Retina at the University of Oxford, assessing patients with choroideremia for an international multi-centre gene therapy trial.

Dr Hickey had additional experience in clinical research through his role as a Research Coordinator for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working in Moshi, Tanzania. In this role he coordinated a study of patients with microbial keratitis, and worked with Peek, a company developing a smartphone attachment to facilitate retinal imaging.